Grammophon 2023

This 2-CD single-layer SACD compilation album contains 22 tracks selected from the titles that have been produced as single-layer SACDs from Deutsche Grammophon's analog period recordings as a Japanese original project. DISC1 contains symphonies and orchestral pieces. DISC2 contains concertos, chamber music, instrumental music, and vocal music from a wide range of classical music genres. Available for the price of one SACD. Celebrating Deutsche Grammophon's 125th anniversary.

This 2-CD single-layer SACD compilation album contains 22 tracks selected from the titles that have been produced as single-layer SACDs from Deutsche Grammophon's analog period recordings as a Japanese original project. DISC1 contains symphonies and orchestral pieces. DISC2 contains concertos, chamber music, instrumental music, and vocal music from a wide range of classical music genres. Available for the price of one SACD. Celebrating Deutsche Grammophon's 125th anniversary.

This 2-CD single-layer SACD compilation album contains 22 tracks selected from the titles that have been produced as single-layer SACDs from Deutsche Grammophon's analog period recordings as a Japanese original project. DISC1 contains symphonies and orchestral pieces. DISC2 contains concertos, chamber music, instrumental music, and vocal music from a wide range of classical music genres. Available for the price of one SACD. Celebrating Deutsche Grammophon's 125th anniversary.

This 2-CD single-layer SACD compilation album contains 22 tracks selected from the titles that have been produced as single-layer SACDs from Deutsche Grammophon's analog period recordings as a Japanese original project. DISC1 contains symphonies and orchestral pieces. DISC2 contains concertos, chamber music, instrumental music, and vocal music from a wide range of classical music genres. Available for the price of one SACD. Celebrating Deutsche Grammophon's 125th anniversary.

French born conductor Lorin Maazel took over the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in 1964 and stayed as chief conductor till 1975. in the beginning he recorded for Deutsche Grammophon with the Berliner Philharmoniker. He was in leading positions at Wiener Staatsoper, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and many more. Over the years he recorded for many labels but his early recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, to whom he returned over the years, are still one of his most important ones.

As a “wunderkind” he sat on Pietro Mascagni’s lap, he accompanied the “Dying Swan” danced by the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, and Fritz Kreisler confessed to the young violinist that he did not know what else to teach him. “No one places Schneiderhan in the company of Kreisler, Heifetz, Huberman, Szigeti or Stern, yet he was as ‘complete’ a violonist as any of them, maybe even more so", wrote the English critic Tully Potter. Wolfgang Schneiderhan’s playing was noble, balanced and sober, but at the same time intense, heartfelt and fetching. Artistic distance and immediacy of expression were not opposites for him. He attached great importance to reliable musical scores and placed himself at the service of the music – qualities that would later become important for historical performance practice. In short, a fascinating artist to be rediscovered.

Between 1988 and 2010, Steve Reich composed three string quartets – ‘Different Trains’, ‘Triple Quartet’ and ‘WTC 9/11’. Deutsche Grammophon now presents this trilogy of works for the first time on one album, in definitive new recordings from the Mivos Quartet. Hailed by The Chicago Reader as “one of America’s most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles”, the Mivos players developed their interpretations of the three quartets – inspired by the music of speech, echoes of Bartók and the events of a day transformed by terror – in close collaboration with the composer. Reich himself supported the project from inception to completion, answering the group’s questions about fine musical details, offering advice on matters of style and endorsing the finished album. ‘Steve Reich: The String Quartets’, featuring notes by veteran radio host and music writer John Schaefer, is set for release digitally, on CD and on vinyl (2 LPs) on 3 February 2023

To mark the occasion of Rachmaninoff's 150th Birthday, Deutsche Grammophon releases Yuja Wang's most ambitious project to date! In February 2023 at Walt Disney Hall, Classical superstar Yuja Wang joined forces with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a sold-out and critically acclaimed Rachmaninoff residency, captured as audio and video by Deutsche Grammophon.

Matthias Goerne, one of the most high-profile Schubertians of his generation, has recorded a selection of Schubert’s songs not in their original versions with piano but in orchestral arrangements by Alexander Schmalcz, Goerne’s accompanist of many years’ standing. Goerne says about Alexander Schmalcz’s arrangements: “His creativity in adapting these songs for the orchestra is enormous, while his stylistic sensibilities and his subtle approach in deploying the right instruments at the right moment are truly astonishing.” “Schubert’s ability to empathize makes him one of the most important composers in the whole of human history. (…) He created “a perfect balance between intellectuality and the greatest naturalness. With Schubert, even the most complicated melodies and forms sound entirely natural.” (Goerne) And yet what we hear on this album is “pure Schubert”, Alexander Schmalcz insists. “I have added nothing. Sometimes I fill out the voices by doubling the octave, for example. Or I write sustained chords in the orchestra in order to simulate the sound-surfaces that are the result of the use of the sustaining pedal on the piano. But my goal is to be as original as possible.”

Anatol Ugorski is a classical pianist from Russia who grew up in what was then called Leningrad where he studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and the Conservatory of Leningrad. His preference for contemporary Western music led to a restriction for ten years as an accompanist to a Soviet choir. His family escaped to East Berlin and then to the West. He recorded 'Diabelli Variations' in 1991 and went on to perform and record with the Chicago Symphony, Concertgebouw in the Netherlands, the Czech Philharmonic and Orchestre de Paris. His albums feature music by Beethoven, Chopin, Messiaen, Moussorgski and Schumann. 'Scriabin: Piano Concerto' (1999) was nominated for a Grammy Award as Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra. The 13-disc box set 'Anatol Ugorski - The Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon' came out in 2018.